Fresh Figs With Ice Cream And Amaretto Chocolate Sauce

Description

If there is one thing i love, it's a fresh fig! This recipe is from california fresh fig booklet.

Ingredients

• Vanilla Ice Cream
• Semisweet Chocolate
• Amaretti Cookie
• Roasted Almonds
• Butter
• Honey
• Amaretto
• Fresh Figs
• Sugar
• Water
• Unsweetened Chocolate Squares

Instructions

1. Pack 1 / 4 cup vanilla ice cream into each of 8 small paper cups and freeze
2. Preheat oven to 350f
3. Lightly butter baking sheet, then set aside
4. In a small bowl, mix grated chocolate, cookies, almonds, butter honey and amaretto
5. Scopp 2 tablesoons of this mixture onto each fig half
6. Arrange on baking sheet and bake 6 to 7 minutes at 350f
7. For the sauce, combine sugar, water, chocolates and butter in a heavy saucepan
8. Heat on medium, stirring until mixture boils, thickens and is smooth
9. Remove from heat, stir in amaretto liquer
10. To serve, unmold ice cream and and place a stuffed fig on plate
11. Drizzle sauce over the ice cream and fig
12. Serve while filling is still warm